wireless connection

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 at 18:20 -0600, Russel Caldwell wrote:
> I took out one of the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and Firefox behaves
> much better but it will just get repopulated with the same addresses on the
> next boot, is that right?
Yes, unless you do something different. Some dhcp clients can be told to
leave /etc/resolv.conf alone, that's one option. Another is to not use
DHCP at all as has been suggested.
> I found these directions for diabling ipv6. Does this look about
> right?
I don't know - did it make a difference?
> I made 2 changes before I rebooted, so I can't be certain which one (or
> both?) actually had the effect of disabling ipv6 on boot.
>> 1. vi /etc/sysctl.conf - add
> net.ipv6.conf.eth1.autoconf = 0
> net.ipv6.conf.eth0.autoconf = 0
> net.ipv6.conf.default.autoconf = 0
> net.ipv6.conf.all.autoconf = 0
> net.ipv6.conf.lo.autoconf = 0
I'd be interested to know what these were set to before. Probably 1?
What is autoconf supposed to do?
> 2. vi /etc/modprobe.d/aliases - changed
> #alias net-pf-10 ipv6
> #to
> alias net-pf-10 off
> # and added
> alias ipv6 off
This keeps the ipv6 module from loading.
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